The Board of Huatai Securities Co., Ltd. announced final dividend for the year 2016. The company will distribute the final dividend in cash to holders of A Shares and H Shares whose names appear on the register of members of the company on July 12, 2017 in the amount of RMB 5.00 (tax included) per 10 shares in cash based on the total share capital of 7,162,768,800.00 shares as at the end of 2016, with an aggregate amount of RMB 3,581,384,400.00. The final dividend is denominated and declared in Renminbi and paid to holders of A Shares in Renminbi and to holders of H Shares in Hong Kong dollars. In order to determine the entitlement of holders of H Shares to the final dividend, the register of members of H Shares of the company will be closed from July 7, 2017 to July 12, 2017 (both days inclusive), during which period no registration of H Shares of the company will be effected. Shareholders whose names appear on the register of members of H Shares of the company on July 12, 2017 shall be entitled to the final dividend. Where the holders holding H Shares who have not registered with the company intend to receive the final dividend, all share certificates and transfer documents must be lodged with the company's H Share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited on July 6, 2017. The final dividend is currently expected to be distributed to H Shareholders on August 8, 2017.

The election of Mr. Xu Feng as non-executive Director of the fourth session of the Board has been proposed to the Shareholders as an ordinary resolution of the AGM held on June 21, 2017, and has been duly approved. Mr. Xu Feng has replaced Mr. Sun Hongning as the non- executive Director of the fourth session of the Board of the Company from 21 June 2017. The term of office of Mr. Xu Feng will end at the conclusion of the current session of the Board. Mr. Sun Hongning resigned from being the non-executive Director as a result of work rearrangement with effect from 21 June 2017. Mr. Xu Feng served a staff member of the Office, staff member of Industrial Department and principal staff member of Industrial Department of the Committee of Planning and Economy of Jiangsu Province from July 1995 to January 2001; from February 2001 to March 2002, he worked as the deputy director of the National Economy General Office of the Committee of Planning and Economy of Jiangsu Province; he was a principal staff member of the General Office of the Committee of Planning and Economy of Jiangsu Province from April 2002 to December 2002; he worked in the Office of Jiangsu Communications Holding Co., Ltd. from January 2003 to March 2004. The company has made a proposal to the Board on appointing Mr. Xu Feng to act as members of Nomination Committee and Remuneration and Appraisal Committee of the Board upon resignation of Mr. Sun Hongning.